Posted By FAH We've had a geat number of questions on fire safety - especially over the last couple of years on this Forum - & there has been considerable valuable debate on the range of issues raised. However, a large number of posts seem to repeat a relatively narrow range of issues, & the respondants also tend to repeat their previous responses - especially where the UK fire safety regime is concerned. Could I ask the Moderators to consider providing a "sub-forum" which is devoted to UK fire legislation & sensible compliance? This would make it far easier to prevent fire topics being buried amongst the substantial number of other very worthy threads & posts; it would also make it far easier for potential posters to search previous threads & locate pre-existing relevant information. I'll now retreat to the relative safety of the grandchildren & await the onslaught! Frank Hallett

Posted By martinw Frank you know the potential responses. Everyone else who thinks that their work area is more interesting to them than any other will say: let's do the same for construction/rail/oil/gas/electricity etc, etc, each of which has in some ways a good case for a seperate sub-forum. Other sites already have different groups for this purpose. Also the more specialist a field, the fewer the practitioners, and the fewer posts as there are less specialists to talk to. Would it be better for those bods to not have to wade through the generalist questions which appear, to get to the one in a hundred questions on their specialist subjects? I know that there are already some other specialist forums exist before I am helpfully informed.....:-) Martin

Posted By FAH Thanks for the responses Crim & Martin. Crim, you'll have seen my response to your other Post? Martin, I'm not advocating a seperate fire safety forum exclusively for fire safety experts; just the provision of a more efficient mechanism that enables potential users [of any & all interests & competencies] to focus better on what has been discussed previously & for their problem of choice to be better identified without being so rapidly buried by the many other very worthy threads 7 responses. I suppose that it wouldn't hurt to apply the same principle to a number of other topics as well. It's not about segregation & excusivity; it's about making it much easier to find & view previous threads that are relevant to your particular issues. Also, whilst a specialist Fire Safety Forum will naturally have considerable value; I perceive that one of the strengths of this IOSH Forum is that it enables a far wider range of opinion to be readily cross-matched & evaluated. Fire safety doesn't exist in isolation from H&S or Enviro; nor vice-versa! Frank Hallett